FLAMSTEED, John.Observationes defectus lunaris Grenovici habitæ in observatorio regio februarii 11/21 1682. p.m. [London, 1683]. From Philosophical Transactions , vol. 13, pp. 89-92. With: (2) FLAMSTEED, John. An abstract of a letter from Mr. J. Flamsteed, ... giving an account of the eclipses of [Jupiter]s satellits, anno 1686; and containing a table of the parallaxes of [Jupiter]s orb, and an ephemeris of [Jupiter]s geocentric places for the same year. [London, 1685]. From Philosophical Transactions , vol. 15, pp. 1215-1230. (3) FLAMSTEED, John. An abstract of a letter from Mr J. Flamsteed. ... giving the description & uses of an instrument for finding the distances of [Jupiter]s satellits from his Axis, with the help of the table of parallaxes and catalogue of eclipses; printed in the preceding Transactions. [London, 1685]. From Philosophical Transactions , vol. 15, pp. 1262-1265. With an engraved astronomical instrument for calculating the positions of Jupiter's moons. 3 parts. 4to. Disbound. www.adsabs.harvard.edu (under Flamsteed and Flamsteedio); for Flamsteed's life: DSB V, pp. 22-26. Three astronomical articles (2 in the form of letters) by England's first Royal Astronomer, John Flamsteed (1646-1719) at the Greenwich Observatory from its establishment in 1675, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the British Royal Society in the years 1683 and 1685. The first article gives observations of a 1682 lunar eclipse by Flamsteed himself, Edmund Halley and a certain Haynes. The second gives Flamsteed's calculations of the eclipses of Jupiter's four moons for the coming year 1686, intended in part as an aid to the determination of longitude. The third gives an engraved dial with four scales around its perimeter, with Flamsteed's description of its use to calculate the positions of Jupiter's moons.. Flamsteed's magnum opus, his great star catalogue and charts, appeared posthumously in 1725 and 1729, so his most important publications during his own lifetime were a single book in 1680 and a dozen short astronomical articles in the years 1672 to 1686, three of them present here. The articles and plate have been disbound, but they are otherwise in very good condition, with only some minor spots in the text and a couple tears (one repaired). Three of Flamsteed's rare non-posthumous astronomical publications, with an engraved plate of his calculating dial.

BLAEU, Johannes.Cantabrigiensis Comitatus. Cambridge Shire. 1646 - Amsterdam, 1646-, blank verso. Original colour. 425 x 520mm. Narrow top margin, old ink mss. number in top border, stain in left margin Decorative map of Cambridge, with two Royal crests, a title cartouche, 17 crests relating to the colleges plus one blank and seven family coats of arms plus one blank. Koeman does not list an edition with blank reverses.

BUCK, [Sir] GeorgeThe History of the Life and Reigne of Richard The Third. Composed in five Bookes By London: Printed by W. Wilson, 1646. . First edition, folio, (iv), 107, (1), 113-150, (8) pp. Portrait frontispiece, closed tear to the margin of pp. 5-6 plus a couple of minor marginal tears. Recent full speckled calf, slightly sunned. A &#147;...pioneering revisionist study... Buck&#146;s method is that of a lawyer, pointing out that in law suspicion is not proof&#148; (ODNB). Master of the Revels to James I, Buck was also responsible for licensing plays, and would have censored Shakespeare&#146;s later plays as well as arranging for court performances of them as well as numerous other pieces by contemporary dramatists. Wing B5306.

Jansson, Jan (1596-1664).:Jansson County Map of YORKSHIRE The West Riding 1646. Atlas Novus Vol 4 - 1646 - Almost indistinguishable from Blaue's map of the previous year and drawing heavily on the work of Speed & Saxton this very decorative map (Click on illustration) shows the division of hundreds,wapentakes, towns, villages, hills, woods,& bridges, as well as the Royal Arms and the arms of the nobility, and county families. 20 X 16 inches with good margins. Unusually,this example is uncoloured and thereby showing the detailed engraving. In very good order.French text to reverse. Ref. Rawnsley pp 24.Beresiner 119.

COMMELIN, Isaac (Ed.).Begin ende voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Vervatende de voornaemste reysen/ by de inwoonderen der selver provincien derwaerts gedaen. (Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius), 1646.21 volumes in 2. Oblong 8vo. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with red morocco title-labels. With 2 different engraved frontispieces and 230 engraved maps and plates. * Third and best edition; first published in Amsterdam in 1645. - This rare and extensively illustrated collection of voyages, containing the journals of 21 navigators to the East and West Indies, represents the material for any research on Dutch exploration of trading routes. Isaac Commelin (1598-1676) did manage to get hold of some unpublished accounts which are here printed for the first time, and which he must have obtained, clandestinely or otherwise, from someone connected with the East-India Company. .. about half of the material is completely new, though a few of the other accounts now appear in Dutch for the first time, having been previously printed in some other language (C.R. Boxer in the Introduction to the facsimile edition). As well as the East Indies, there is much material on the Straits of Magellan (since several of the voyages came from the east), and descriptions of a number of significant early visits to the Philippines, China and Japan, India, Mauritius, etc. Among them are the Arctic discoveries of Heemskerk and Barentsz, the East-India voyages of Houtman, de Keyzer and Van Spilbergen, the circumnavigations by Van Noort, Le Maire, Schouten and Van Spilbergen. A very important collection for the history of early Pacific exploration as well as for the development of the East Indies.1 Gerrit de Veer, voyages to the north (1594-1596)2 Cornelis de Houtman, first Dutch voyage to the East Indies (1595-1597)3 Jacob Cornelisz. van Neck and Wybrant van Warwijck, first voyage to the East Indies (1598-1600), with appendix Javanese-Malay dictionary4 Sebald de Weert, voyage around the world (1598-1599), described by Barent Jansz. (Potgieter)5 Olivier van Noort, voyage around the world (1598-1601)6 Pieter Both and Paulus van Caerden, voyage to the East Indies (1599-1601)7 Jacob Cornelis van Neck, second voyage to the East Indies (1600-1604)8 Voyages to the East Indies under Steven van der Haghen (1599-1601), Cornelis Pietersz. and Guillaume Senechal (1600-1602), Jacob van Heemskerk (1601-1603)9 Wolfert Harmensz, voyage to the East Indies (1601-1603)10 Joris van Spilbergen, voyage to the East Indies (1601-1604)11Wijbrand van Warwijck and Sebald de Weert, voyage to the East Indies (1602-1604)12 Steven van der Haghen, second voyage to the East Indies (1603-1606)13 Cornelis Matelief, voyage to the East Indies (1605-1608)14 Paulus van Caerden, voyage to the East Indies (1606-1609)15 Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff, voyage to the East Indies (1607-1616)16 Pieter van den Broecke, voyages to West Africa and Asia (1605-1630)17 Johan van Twist, description of Gujerat (1638)18 Joris van Spilbergen, voyage around the world (1614-1618); Willem Cornelisz. Schouten and Jacob Le Maire, voyage around the world (1615-1617)19 Jacques L'Hermite, voyage around the world (Nassau fleet) (1623-1626); with appendix by Pedro de Madriga, description of Peru and Chile20 Wijbrant Schram, voyage and battle with Claes Compaen (1626); Zeyger van Rechteren, voyage to the East Indies (1628-1632); appendix sea battle of Cornelisz. off Goa (1639)21 Hendrick Hagenaer, voyage to the East Indies (1631-1637), François Caron, description of Japan (1636), Reyer Gysbertsx, history of the martyrs in Japan; Joost Schouten, description of Siam (1636)Janssonius (1588-1664) was one of the leading Amsterdam publishers who specialized in the printing and publication of navigational and cartographical material. 'the most important Dutch collection of travel literature published during the seventeenth century' (Lach, Asia in the making of Europe, III,1 p.461). - (Some age-browing, printed title-page vol. I mounted, few blank margins repaired or waterstained; the journals in vol. II are seperatly brought together as often happened). - A very good copy.Tiele 81, Cat. NHSM I, p.105; Landwehr, VOC, 250.

Merian Matthäus, 1593-1650Paris, important panoramaview, Merian anno 1646 Paris, ,1646. Paris, important panoramaview, Merian anno 1646 Copperengraving, edited by Matthäus Merian, in his famous "NEUE ARCHONTOLOGIA COSMICA", edition anno 1646, size of the view: 27 x 70 cm., on margins stained, the surface is ok, below centerfold little brownish. Important panorama view of Paris, lookingover the Hospitale de S. Louis across the city, Notre Dame on left side, the Louvre on the right side. In the foreground to see Merian Matthäus himself, painting the town. IMPORTANT PRINT OF PARIS..

Della Bella, StefanoRaccolta di Vasi Diversi Paris: F. Langlois, 1646. Paris: F. Langlois, 1646. Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664). Raccolta di Vasi Diversi. Paris: F. Langlois, 1646. Complete set of six etchings (ca. 1646), all first state (of three) on laid paper, with margins (slightly uneven), occasional pale spotting and staining, stitching holes in the right margins, laid on the page of an album. Quarto, (plates: 3 1/2 x 7 1/4"; 90 x 185mm); (sheets: 5 x 10"; 125 x 250mm). Red half morocco rubbed, rebacked. De Vesme 1045-50; Berlin II, No. 1137. A collection of 46 vases (whole or partial) etched on six sheets including title-page.These "capprichi" were done for the sake of experiment and invention with foliage, animal figures, grotesques, floral arrangements, ornaments, and satyrs. According to the V&A, "nourished both by his fertile imagination and by his observations of the natural world, in the suite Raccolta di vasi diversi, published in 1646, Stefano della Bella combines plant forms and realistic yet fantastical figures in a manner which anticipated the Rococo. It has proven to be of particular influence on successive decorative artists in many media." According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these etchings formed illustrations for the Vignettes Les triomphes de Lovis le Ivste XIII. dv nom, roy de France et de Navarre by Jean Valdor (Paris: Antoine Estienne, 1649). On Bella's theatrical work at this period: Beginning in 1645, the artist was enlisted by Anne d'Autrich (1601-1666) for drawings of all performances at the "Theatre du Petit Bourbon." He designed a title page and drew the animal ballets that performed as an interlude for the opera La Finta Pazza. In 1649, Bella participated in the work Les Triomphes de Louis le Juste XIII by Jean Valdor (1616-1670) in honor of Louis XIII (1601-1643). He returned to Florence in 1650 and entered into the service of Matthias de'Medicis (1613-1667). He instructed the young Cosimo III (1642-1723) in drawing. In addition, he was accepted into the Florentine literary circle of the Accademia degli Apasti. This marked the peak of his career. Victoria and Albert Museum's set is from a set re engraved in reverse after the originals published in Rome in 1660 (http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O726877/raccolta di vasi diversi di design for a stefano della bella/)Provenance: Polovsteff or Polostoff (Russian ambassador to France, ca. 1880); Bernard Quaritch, 1988; Arthur and Charlotte Vershobow, 2013.

Horne, Andrew; Hughes, William, TranslatorThe Booke Called, The Mirrour of Justices: Made by Andrew Horne... 1646. Horne, Andrew [d.1328]. H[ughes], W[illiam], Translator. [Fitzherbert, Anthony (1470-1538)]. The Booke Called, The Mirrour of Justices: Made by Andrew Horne. With the Book, Called, The Diversity of Courts, And Their Jurisdictions. Both Translated Out of the Old French into the English Tongue. London: Matthew Walbancke, 1646. [xxxii], 288, 287-325, [9] pp. First leaf blank. Octavo (5-1/4" x 3-1/4"). Recent period-style calf, blind fillets to boards, blind fillets and gilt title to spine, endpapers renewed. Woodcut head and tail-pieces. Moderate toning, light foxing in places. Early owner annotations and signature (of Jacobi Bremridge) to front endleaves, small tear to title page mended with archival tape. An appealing copy. * First edition in English and the second edition overall. Written about 1290, The Mirrour of Justices became an authority in the latter part of the sixteenth century when English lawyers began to look to Glanville, Bracton, and Britton as guides to put the common law into a more logical arrangement. It was not a reliable source, however. As Maitland observed, it is "the work of one profoundly dissatisfied with the administration of the law by the king's judges. As against this he appeals to myths and legends about the law of King Alfred's day and the like, some of which myths and legends were perhaps traditional, while others were deliberately concocted. Intelligently read it is very instructive; but the intelligent reader will often infer that the law is exactly the opposite of what the writer represents it to be." Mirrour was first published in Law-French in 1642. The Diversity of Courts is by Fitzherbert. A note of the front free endpaper says: "Note in going over the Mirror Justices in French I cursorily compar'd the French with the English & wherever there appear'd any material error in either of 'em I corrected it in the margin." Maitland, Collected Papers II:46. Lowndes, Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature 3:1119. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:40-41 (19, 20)..

Clayton, JohnTopicks in the Laws of England. Containing Media, Apt for Argument... 1646. A Fine Collection of Maxims from the Library of Charles Purton Cooper [Clayton, John]. Topicks in the Laws of England. Containing Media, Apt for Argument, And Resolution of Law Cases: Also an Exposition of Severall Words, Not Touched by Former Glossaries. London: Printed by R.L. for William Leake, 1646. [xx], 138 pp. Final leaf, a blank, lacking. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, rebacked in period style, gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine, corners repaired, front and rear free endpapers renewed, fore-edge of title page expertly restored. Some rubbing to extremities, a few minor scuffs to boards, bookseller ticket, later owner signature (of Alfred J. Norwood) and armorial bookplate of Charles Purton Cooper to front pastedown. Some toning to text, light browning to title page, faint dampstaining to margins of some leaves. Cooper's small inkstamp to head of dedication page, interior otherwise clean. A nice copy with an interesting association. * First edition. Intended for the layman, this is an alphabetically digested collection of 167 maxims and common legal phrases (i.e. topicks) with references to reporters and other works. A second edition was published in 1647. The dedication to Oliver Cromwell in 1646 is relatively early. It was to be a full ten years before Cromwell sought a comprehensive reform of English law. Cooper (1793-1873) was a distinguished lawyer, legal reformer and legal historian. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:575 (7). Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2094..

Horne, Andrew; Hughes, William, TranslatorThe Booke Called, The Mirrour of Justices: Made by Andrew Horne... 1646. First English-Language Edition of Horne's Mirrour of Justices Horne, Andrew [d.1328]. H[ughes], W[illiam], Translator. [Fitzherbert, Anthony (1470-1538)]. The Booke Called, The Mirrour of Justices: Made by Andrew Horne. With the Book, Called, The Diversity of Courts, And Their Jurisdictions. Both Translated Out of the Old French into the English Tongue. London: Matthew Walbancke, 1646. [xxxii], 288, 287-325, [9] pp. Recent period-style calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets to spine, front free endpaper renewed, later armorial bookplate of the Earl of Macclesfield to front pastedown, small embossed Macclesfield stamp to head of title page. Woodcut head and tail-pieces. Some browning to text, faint dampspotting in places. Early owner signature (of Thomas Clarke) and annotation to front free endpaper, occasional annotations to margins. * First edition in English and the second edition overall. Written about 1290, The Mirrour of Justices became an authority in the latter part of the sixteenth century when English lawyers began to look to Glanville, Bracton, and Britton as guides to put the common law into a more logical arrangement. It was not a reliable source, however. As Maitland observed, it is "the work of one profoundly dissatisfied with the administration of the law by the king's judges. As against this he appeals to myths and legends about the law of King Alfred's day and the like, some of which myths and legends were perhaps traditional, while others were deliberately concocted. Intelligently read it is very instructive; but the intelligent reader will often infer that the law is exactly the opposite of what the writer represents it to be." Mirrour was first published in Law-French in 1642. The Diversity of Courts is by Fitzherbert. A note of the front free endpaper says: "Note in going over the Mirror Justices in French I cursorily compar'd the French with the English & wherever there appear'd any material error in either of 'em I corrected it in the margin." Maitland, Collected Papers II:46. Lowndes, Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature 3:1119. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:40-41 (19, 20)..